Blog #-1 My Introduction

(1) afunderburgh@hotmail.com

(2) 4th Year Senior

(3) To be honest, this fulfills one of the computer science class, but it also sounded extremely interesting.  While I was signing up for classes at the end of last semester, none of them drew my attention as much as this class did.  After only a day I can already tell that it will be worth all of the work required by us.

(4) I think I bring a very unique perspective to this class.  I was born in Dallas, Texas but it seems my entire life I have been exposed to different groups that lie outside of my comfort zone.  By this I mean in my high school back at home I was in the ethnic minority since my school mostly consisted of Hispanics or Blacks.  Right at the end of high school I started dating a Filipino (or I guess more correctly: a Filipina) girl and am still with her after three years.  Experiences with her family have been.... interesting.  In college I met a large group of Indian students who traveled to Austin every weekend and since Kim, my girlfriend goes to UT, I hitched a ride with them every week to visit her.  I learned a lot about myself and other people during those trips.  We were good friends but sometimes we got into disagreements over our different world views and at the end I fear we only strengthened our own opinions.  At UT, by pure chance, Kim and I somehow joined the Vietnamese Students Association and grew to be close friends with many of those members.  After our first year of college, many of the people I got rides to Austin with stopped going so through another series of interesting circumstances I ended up meeting a 30-year old female Chinese student who gave me rides until last semester when she graduated.  To top all of this off, this last summer, I traveled to Morocco where I lived with a host family for six weeks while I furthered my education in the Arabic language.  

So I am confident in saying that I have experiences with groups outside of the normal stereotypical Texan. (Which I have had plenty btw)

(5) Working.

(6) In all honesty.... something "social."  Some mobile device that interfaces with the world better, yadda yadda.  What I want to be the next big thing, is technology that more interaction with our brains i.e. you can send visual signals directly to the occipital lobe instead of dealing with expensive and low quality monitors or screens. 

(7) Larry Page so I can be the initial investor in Google :-)

(8) inb4 toms. In seriousiness, I like tennis shoes and they are the only kind of shoes I wear.  Sandals aren't as comfortable to me.  

(9) If I could instantly become fluent any language I would definitely choose Mandarin.  Since I am already fluent in English and have had a year and a half in Arabic, if I were fluent in Mandarin I would be able to speak with over at least 90% of the world's population.  I considered taking a class in Mandarin while at A&M but I never have the time each semester.  Also the task of mastering such a language is too daunting.  I prefer my languages with alphabets and less focus on tones.

(10) See question three.  Other than that: I am learning Arabic, I am addicted to League of Legends, and I like working on computer science projects.  That is about it.